OpenRaiser/Intern-Atlas huggingface dataset:
Breaking Shallow Limits: Task-Driven Pixel Fusion for Gap-free RGBT Tracking
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

Current RGBT tracking methods often overlook the impact of fusion location on mitigating modality gap, which is key factor to effective tracking. Our analysis reveals that shallower fusion yields smaller distribution gap. However, the limited discriminative power of shallow networks hard to distinguish task-relevant information from noise, limiting the potential of pixel-level fusion. To break shallow limits, we propose a novel \textbf{T}ask-driven \textbf{P}ixel-level \textbf{F}usion network, named \textbf{TPF}, which unveils the power of pixel-level fusion in RGBT tracking through a progressive learning framework. In particular, we design a lightweight Pixel-level Fusion Adapter (PFA) that exploits Mamba's linear complexity to ensure real-time, low-latency RGBT tracking. To enhance the fusion capabilities of the PFA, our task-driven progressive learning framework first utilizes adaptive multi-expert distillation to inherits fusion knowledge from state-of-the-art image fusion models, establishing robust initialization, and then employs a decoupled representation learning scheme to achieve task-relevant information fusion. Moreover, to overcome appearance variations between the initial template and search frames, we presents a nearest-neighbor dynamic template updating scheme, which selects the most reliable frame closest to the current search frame as the dynamic template. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TPF significantly outperforms existing most of advanced trackers on four public RGBT tracking datasets. The code will be released upon acceptance.
Step-Video-TI2V Technical Report: A State-of-the-Art Text-Driven Image-to-Video Generation Model
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

We present Step-Video-TI2V, a state-of-the-art text-driven image-to-video generation model with 30B parameters, capable of generating videos up to 102 frames based on both text and image inputs. We build Step-Video-TI2V-Eval as a new benchmark for the text-driven image-to-video task and compare Step-Video-TI2V with open-source and commercial TI2V engines using this dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of Step-Video-TI2V in the image-to-video generation task. Both Step-Video-TI2V and Step-Video-TI2V-Eval are available at https://github.com/stepfun-ai/Step-Video-TI2V.
Line of Duty: Evaluating LLM Self-Knowledge via Consistency in Feasibility Boundaries
Venue: arXiv cs.CL 2025
Year: 2025

As LLMs grow more powerful, their most profound achievement may be recognising when to say "I don't know". Existing studies on LLM self-knowledge have been largely constrained by human-defined notions of feasibility, often neglecting the reasons behind unanswerability by LLMs and failing to study deficient types of self-knowledge. This study aims to obtain intrinsic insights into different types of LLM self-knowledge with a novel methodology: allowing them the flexibility to set their own feasibility boundaries and then analysing the consistency of these limits. We find that even frontier models like GPT-4o and Mistral Large are not sure of their own capabilities more than 80% of the time, highlighting a significant lack of trustworthiness in responses. Our analysis of confidence balance in LLMs indicates that models swing between overconfidence and conservatism in feasibility boundaries depending on task categories and that the most significant self-knowledge weaknesses lie in temporal awareness and contextual understanding. These difficulties in contextual comprehension additionally lead models to question their operational boundaries, resulting in considerable confusion within the self-knowledge of LLMs. We make our code and results available publicly at https://github.com/knowledge-verse-ai/LLM-Self_Knowledge_Eval
To Assess the Impact of Smart Cities on Urbanization Patterns in the United States
Venue: arXiv cs.CY 2025
Year: 2025

This paper investigates the relationship between smart city initiatives and evolving urbanization trends in the United States. The research addresses the critical issue of rapid urban growth in the U.S. and explores how innovations within the smart city paradigm influence urban development. Utilizing principles from Urban Complexity Theory, this study identifies four key variables relevant to smart cities and their impact on urbanization: smart city technology, government policy, environmental sustainability, and socioeconomic factors. A mixed-method approach, combining quantitative and qualitative methodologies, was employed. A web-based survey (n=50) utilizing a five-point Likert scale was conducted among residents of Manhattan, New York, and Capitol Hill, Seattle. Results indicate that the implementation of smart city technologies is significantly associated with shifts in population density, land use diversification, and enhanced infrastructure dynamics. Additionally, residents demonstrated preferences for smart cities based on efficient urban mobility, environmental sustainability, and personal socioeconomic improvements. The findings highlight essential considerations for urban planners, policymakers, and employers. This study concludes that incorporating the identified influential factors into strategic urban planning optimizes city development to better accommodate growing urban populations.
Towards Fine-Grained Scalability for Stateful Stream Processing Systems
Venue: arXiv cs.DC 2025
Year: 2025

Dynamic scaling is critical to stream processing engines, as their long-running nature demands adaptive resource management. Existing scaling approaches easily cause performance degradation due to coarse-grained synchronization and inefficient state migration, resulting in system halt or high processing latency. In this paper, we propose DRRS, an on-the-fly scaling method that reduces performance overhead at the system level with three key innovations: (i) fine-grained scaling signals coupled with a re-routing mechanism that significantly mitigates propagation delay, (ii) a sophisticated record-scheduling mechanism that substantially reduces processing suspension, and (iii) subscale division, a mechanism that partitions migrating states into independent subsets, thereby reducing dependency-related overhead to enable finer-grained control and better runtime adaptability during scaling. DRRS is implemented on Apache Flink and, when compared to state-of-the-art approaches, reduces peak and average latencies by up to 81.1% and 95.5% respectively, while achieving a 72.8%-86% reduction in scaling duration, without disruption in non-scaling periods.
Colour Morphological Distance Ordering based on the Log-Exp-Supremum
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

Mathematical morphology, a field within image processing, includes various filters that either highlight, modify, or eliminate certain information in images based on an application's needs. Key operations in these filters are dilation and erosion, which determine the supremum or infimum for each pixel with respect to an order of the tonal values over a subset of the image surrounding the pixel. This subset is formed by a structuring element at the specified pixel, which weighs the tonal values. Unlike grey-scale morphology, where tonal order is clearly defined, colour morphology lacks a definitive total order. As no method fully meets all desired properties for colour, because of this difficulty, some limitations are always present. This paper shows how to combine the theory of the log-exp-supremum of colour matrices that employs the Loewner semi-order with a well-known colour distance approach in the form of a pre-ordering. The log-exp-supremum will therefore serve as the reference colour for determining the colour distance. To the resulting pre-ordering with respect to these distance values, we add a lexicographic cascade to ensure a total order and a unique result. The objective of this approach is to identify the original colour within the structuring element that most closely resembles a supremum, which fulfils a number of desired properties. Consequently, this approach avoids the false-colour problem. The behaviour of the introduced operators is illustrated by application examples of dilation and closing for synthetic and natural images.
Rule-Guided Feedback: Enhancing Reasoning by Enforcing Rule Adherence in Large Language Models
Venue: arXiv cs.CL 2025
Year: 2025

In this paper, we introduce Rule-Guided Feedback (RGF), a framework designed to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) performance through structured rule adherence and strategic information seeking. RGF implements a teacher-student paradigm where rule-following is forced through established guidelines. Our framework employs a Teacher model that rigorously evaluates each student output against task-specific rules, providing constructive guidance rather than direct answers when detecting deviations. This iterative feedback loop serves two crucial purposes: maintaining solutions within defined constraints and encouraging proactive information seeking to resolve uncertainties. We evaluate RGF on diverse tasks including Checkmate-in-One puzzles, Sonnet Writing, Penguins-In-a-Table classification, GSM8k, and StrategyQA. Our findings suggest that structured feedback mechanisms can significantly enhance LLMs' performance across various domains.
EgoSplat: Open-Vocabulary Egocentric Scene Understanding with Language Embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

Egocentric scenes exhibit frequent occlusions, varied viewpoints, and dynamic interactions compared to typical scene understanding tasks. Occlusions and varied viewpoints can lead to multi-view semantic inconsistencies, while dynamic objects may act as transient distractors, introducing artifacts into semantic feature modeling. To address these challenges, we propose EgoSplat, a language-embedded 3D Gaussian Splatting framework for open-vocabulary egocentric scene understanding. A multi-view consistent instance feature aggregation method is designed to leverage the segmentation and tracking capabilities of SAM2 to selectively aggregate complementary features across views for each instance, ensuring precise semantic representation of scenes. Additionally, an instance-aware spatial-temporal transient prediction module is constructed to improve spatial integrity and temporal continuity in predictions by incorporating spatial-temporal associations across multi-view instances, effectively reducing artifacts in the semantic reconstruction of egocentric scenes. EgoSplat achieves state-of-the-art performance in both localization and segmentation tasks on two datasets, outperforming existing methods with a 8.2% improvement in localization accuracy and a 3.7% improvement in segmentation mIoU on the ADT dataset, and setting a new benchmark in open-vocabulary egocentric scene understanding. The code will be made publicly available.
Finite Horizon Optimization for Large-Scale MIMO
Venue: arXiv cs.IT 2025
Year: 2025

Large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is an emerging wireless technology that deploys thousands of transmit antennas at the base-station to boost spectral efficiency. The classic weighted minimum mean-square-error (WMMSE) algorithm for beamforming is no suited for the large-scale MIMO because each iteration of the algorithm then requires inverting a matrix whose size equals the number of transmit antennas. While the existing methods such as the reduced WMMSE algorithm seek to decrease the size of matrix to invert, this work proposes to eliminate this large matrix inversion completely by applying gradient descent method in conjunction with fractional programming. Furthermore, we optimize the step sizes for gradient descent from a finite horizon optimization perspective, aiming to maximize the performance after a limited number of iterations of gradient descent. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm is much more efficient than the WMMSE algorithm in optimizing the large-scale MIMO precoders.
PBR3DGen: A VLM-guided Mesh Generation with High-quality PBR Texture
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

Generating high-quality physically based rendering (PBR) materials is important to achieve realistic rendering in the downstream tasks, yet it remains challenging due to the intertwined effects of materials and lighting. While existing methods have made breakthroughs by incorporating material decomposition in the 3D generation pipeline, they tend to bake highlights into albedo and ignore spatially varying properties of metallicity and roughness. In this work, we present PBR3DGen, a two-stage mesh generation method with high-quality PBR materials that integrates the novel multi-view PBR material estimation model and a 3D PBR mesh reconstruction model. Specifically, PBR3DGen leverages vision language models (VLM) to guide multi-view diffusion, precisely capturing the spatial distribution and inherent attributes of reflective-metalness material. Additionally, we incorporate view-dependent illumination-aware conditions as pixel-aware priors to enhance spatially varying material properties. Furthermore, our reconstruction model reconstructs high-quality mesh with PBR materials. Experimental results demonstrate that PBR3DGen significantly outperforms existing methods, achieving new state-of-the-art results for PBR estimation and mesh generation. More results and visualization can be found on our project page: https://pbr3dgen1218.github.io/.
Optimizing Large Language Models for Detecting Symptoms of Comorbid Depression or Anxiety in Chronic Diseases: Insights from Patient Messages
Venue: arXiv cs.AI 2025
Year: 2025

Patients with diabetes are at increased risk of comorbid depression or anxiety, complicating their management. This study evaluated the performance of large language models (LLMs) in detecting these symptoms from secure patient messages. We applied multiple approaches, including engineered prompts, systemic persona, temperature adjustments, and zero-shot and few-shot learning, to identify the best-performing model and enhance performance. Three out of five LLMs demonstrated excellent performance (over 90% of F-1 and accuracy), with Llama 3.1 405B achieving 93% in both F-1 and accuracy using a zero-shot approach. While LLMs showed promise in binary classification and handling complex metrics like Patient Health Questionnaire-4, inconsistencies in challenging cases warrant further real-life assessment. The findings highlight the potential of LLMs to assist in timely screening and referrals, providing valuable empirical knowledge for real-world triage systems that could improve mental health care for patients with chronic diseases.
Deepfake Detection of Face Images based on a Convolutional Neural Network
Venue: arXiv cs.CV 2025
Year: 2025

Fake News and especially deepfakes (generated, non-real image or video content) have become a serious topic over the last years. With the emergence of machine learning algorithms it is now easier than ever before to generate such fake content, even for private persons. This issue of generated fake images is especially critical in the context of politics and public figures. We want to address this conflict by building a model based on a Convolutions Neural Network in order to detect such generated and fake images showing human portraits. As a basis, we use a pre-trained ResNet-50 model due to its effectiveness in terms of classifying images. We then adopted the base model to our task of classifying a single image as authentic/real or fake by adding an fully connected output layer containing a single neuron indicating the authenticity of an image. We applied fine tuning and transfer learning to develop the model and improve its parameters. For the training process we collected the image data set "Diverse Face Fake Dataset" containing a wide range of different image manipulation methods and also diversity in terms of faces visible on the images. With our final model we reached the following outstanding performance metrics: precision = 0.98, recall 0.96, F1-Score = 0.97 and an area-under-curve = 0.99.
Classifying Long-tailed and Label-noise Data via Disentangling and Unlearning
Venue: arXiv cs.LG 2025
Year: 2025

In real-world datasets, the challenges of long-tailed distributions and noisy labels often coexist, posing obstacles to the model training and performance. Existing studies on long-tailed noisy label learning (LTNLL) typically assume that the generation of noisy labels is independent of the long-tailed distribution, which may not be true from a practical perspective. In real-world situaiton, we observe that the tail class samples are more likely to be mislabeled as head, exacerbating the original degree of imbalance. We call this phenomenon as ``tail-to-head (T2H)'' noise. T2H noise severely degrades model performance by polluting the head classes and forcing the model to learn the tail samples as head. To address this challenge, we investigate the dynamic misleading process of the nosiy labels and propose a novel method called Disentangling and Unlearning for Long-tailed and Label-noisy data (DULL). It first employs the Inner-Feature Disentangling (IFD) to disentangle feature internally. Based on this, the Inner-Feature Partial Unlearning (IFPU) is then applied to weaken and unlearn incorrect feature regions correlated to wrong classes. This method prevents the model from being misled by noisy labels, enhancing the model's robustness against noise. To provide a controlled experimental environment, we further propose a new noise addition algorithm to simulate T2H noise. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Prompt Injection Detection and Mitigation via AI Multi-Agent NLP Frameworks
Venue: arXiv cs.AI 2025
Year: 2025

Prompt injection constitutes a significant challenge for generative AI systems by inducing unintended outputs. We introduce a multi-agent NLP framework specifically designed to address prompt injection vulnerabilities through layered detection and enforcement mechanisms. The framework orchestrates specialized agents for generating responses, sanitizing outputs, and enforcing policy compliance. Evaluation on 500 engineered injection prompts demonstrates a marked reduction in injection success and policy breaches. Novel metrics, including Injection Success Rate (ISR), Policy Override Frequency (POF), Prompt Sanitization Rate (PSR), and Compliance Consistency Score (CCS), are proposed to derive a composite Total Injection Vulnerability Score (TIVS). The system utilizes the OVON (Open Voice Network) framework for inter-agent communication via structured JSON messages, extending a previously established multi-agent architecture from hallucination mitigation to address the unique challenges of prompt injection.
mobilityDCAT-AP: a Metadata Specification for Enhanced Cross-border Mobility Data Sharing
Venue: arXiv cs.DB 2025
Year: 2025

Integrated and efficient mobility requires data sharing among the involved stakeholders. In this direction, regulators and transport authorities have been defining policies to foster the digitalisation and online publication of mobility data. However, the creation of several heterogeneous data portals for mobility data resulted in a fragmented ecosystem that challenges data accessibility. In this context, metadata is a key enabler to foster the findability and reusability of relevant datasets, but their interoperability across different data portals should be ensured. Moreover, each domain presents specificities on the relevant information that should be encoded through metadata. To solve these issues within the mobility domain, we present mobilityDCAT-AP, a reference metadata specification for mobility data portals specified by putting together domain experts and the Semantic Web community. We report on the work done to develop the metadata model behind mobilityDCAT-AP and the best practices followed in its implementation and publication. Finally, we describe the available educational resources and the activities performed to ensure broader adoption of mobilityDCAT-AP across mobility data portals. We present success stories from early adopters and discuss the challenges they encountered in implementing a metadata specification based on Semantic Web technologies.
Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?
Venue: arXiv cs.CL 2025
Year: 2025

We analyze the influence of utterance-level construction distributions in German child-directed/child-available speech on the resulting word-level, syntactic and semantic competence (and their underlying learning trajectories) in small LMs, which we train on a novel collection of developmentally plausible language data for German. We find that trajectories are surprisingly robust for markedly different distributions of constructions in the training data, which have little effect on final accuracies and almost no effect on global learning trajectories. While syntax learning benefits from more complex utterances, word-level learning culminates in better scores with more fragmentary utterances. We argue that LMs trained on developmentally plausible data can contribute to debates on how conducive different kinds of linguistic stimuli are to language learning.
ASMA-Tune: Unlocking LLMs' Assembly Code Comprehension via Structural-Semantic Instruction Tuning
Venue: arXiv cs.SE 2025
Year: 2025

Assembly code analysis and comprehension play critical roles in applications like reverse engineering, yet they face substantial challenges due to low information density and a lack of explicit syntactic structures. While traditional masked language modeling (MLM) approaches do not explicitly focus on natural language interaction, emerging decoder-focused large language models (LLMs) demonstrate partial success in binary analysis yet remain underexplored for holistic comprehension. We present Assembly Augmented Tuning, an end-to-end structural-semantic instruction tuning framework that synergizes encoder architecture with decoder-based LLMs through a projector module, where the assembly encoder extracts hardware-level structural features, the projector bridges representations with the semantic space, and the instruction-tuned LLM preserves natural language capabilities. Experimental results demonstrate three key advantages: (1) State-of-the-art performance in assembly comprehension with +39.7% Recall@1 and +17.8% MRR improvements over GPT-4-Turbo, (2) Consistent enhancements across base models (24.6-107.4% Recall@1 and 15.2-106.3% MRR on Qwen2.5-Coder, Deepseek-Coder and CodeLlama variants), and (3) Superior instruction-following capabilities (41.5%-118% improvements) with controlled code generation degradation (-8.9% to -35% across architectures).